This thread has nothing to do with Covid, but it does have to do with people shrieking about censorship because a library removed some books that are still available. It seems the only thing that will make you guys happy is for every public library to hold copies of every single book ever published.
Do you understand what a book really is?
In the first month of the First World War. People died by the thousands, and then tens of thousands. And then by the hundreds of thousands. Blood soaked the ground turning it to mud.
But it is not ironic that I as a Veteran say that wasn’t the worst tragedy of that first month. The worst was the Burning of the Library of Louvain.
en.m.wikipedia.org
More than a quarter million books, manuscripts, letters from the Medieval times was destroyed. History was destroyed. Our ability to learn and understand was destroyed.
Never again could Historians research questions. Never again would anyone be able to read what had been written. Preserved for centuries, destroyed in hours. Lost forever.
When you remove books on the Holocaust it isn’t because the information is superfluous. It is because you don’t want anyone reading it. When you remove Harriet Tubman from history of the Underground Railroad, it isn’t because you wish to be accurate. It’s because you don’t want people to know.
It isn’t my personal opinion alone. It is the literal founder of the Navy as to what an Officer should be.
Qualifications of a Naval Officer page for Strategic Plan at USNA.edu. Updated Fri Jan 10 14:51:48 EST 2020.
www.usna.edu
We don’t want robots. We want people who can think, who are capable of critical thought. The best officers from history were thinkers. People who never stopped thinking and considering.
When you remove books you are saying you don’t want them to read those books. Removed not for condition of the books, or lack of relevance, or even disinterest. Removed for political reasons.
